Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — A ROAD LAW. [ARTICLE]

A ROAD LAW.

The Tice road law of Illinois is one to be studied by every state whose roads are in as bad a condition as those in Illinois. It is certainly a fundamental step. Good roads are one of the main factors to be considered in the plan of building up any community. With all of the present discussion of marketing conditions we might well include the cost of marketing since the following is true of one of the greatest of our grain states: “Less than 10 per cent of these roadways are improved, and for one-third of the year the unimproved roads in this state are in many extensive districts practically impassable and unfitted for use by the farmers of the state.”